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LegalEagle Suing PayPal's Honey (youtu.be)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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"The biggest scam in YouTube history"

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (31 children)

~~When MKB commented on the situation, he avoided dropping the name PayPal. Seemingly on purpose. Just in case it would help him in the future.~~

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

Hope this case won't be used against consumers in the future. If I want to use/make an extension that scrubs all affiliate links and cookies that should be legal, same with an extension that replaces all affiliate links/cookies with ones from someone I want to support. Advertisers and their partners have no rights to anything being stored/done on my devices.

Not defending what Paypal was doing, but the real issue for me is that they had no intention of actually finding the best codes/discounts, not what they did with affiliate links.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I would say the real issue is transparency. If Honey made it clear that their product overwrote the affiliate links referer, didn't actually find the best deals (despite advertising that exact thing), and then paid influencers to advertise their product that also steals from them, then this wouldn't be as much of a big deal if at all. Though they also probably wouldn't be a successful business, hence why many consider it a scam.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Eh. I don't care about this because it only affects "influencers" who are willing to sacrifice the integrity of their work to advertise products.

Any "content creator" who lost money from this can go get fucked. They can all eat shit for collectively lowering everyone else's standards and contributing to a 'new normal.'

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